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jmwellborn

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  1. I know that the Help instructions are preliminary, but there appears to be a discrepancy. The instructions say "As a useful visual aid, symbols are indicated by an vertical orange bar on their layer entries in the Layers panel. If a symbolized object has been edited when unsynchronized a dashed orange bar is shown instead." I am using a MAC Sierra, Retina display. I have attached a screen shot of my Layers panel when I was working with the Symbols panel. The orange bar seems to be missing. Tiny little detail. Publisher is so exceptional!!
  2. Oh my. I rather think that I would leave it up to the people at Serif and Affinity to decide how to develop their products and how to introduce them to the world. Bentleys, Waterford, Winnie the Pooh, Peter Rabbit, Harris tweed, bagpipes, etc. (and software) are not the same if mass-produced otherwhere. Look what happened to Wedgewood. Look at what has happened to Adobe. So far, the Affinity software is absolutely wonderful. It is astounding to find people who care this much to make ANYTHING that is exceptional in the 21st Century. Satiny smooth software, extraordinarily helpful Video tutorials and online Help, and the Forums — peopled by Affinities who are not only extremely helpful, but invariably gracious. I would give them the room to proceed at their pace, not at Richard Branson’s. I am sure they will do what is right for them.
  3. Except that I downloaded them as two separate applications on my MAC. I can open each one (145 or 162) completely separately from the other. H'm'm'm.
  4. Here's an interesting thing. Just manually downloaded v. 162 to my MAC Sierra. Very smooth. I kept v. 145 and 157 temporarily. And then I ditched v. 157 to the trash. When I opened v. 162, how did it know the manual settings I made for the tools and the toolbar in v. 157? I was all prepared to have to do it all over again, just the way I had to redo V. 157 (including some new changes for the tools) from v. 145. Anyway, I am pleased as can be!! V. 157 is now "on the wrong side of the grass" as they say around here.
  5. I am now on v. 162 and the frame text ruler seems to be working. I have discovered that if it is checked in the VIEW menu and the little icon is in the toolbar whited out, I use the MOVE tool (not the text tool) and double-click on a text frame and the frame text ruler turns up. When I move to a different text frame, the little icon disappears from the toolbar, but if I have kept the option checked in the VIEW menu, and double click the new text frame with the MOVE tool, the text ruler turns up. Good job!!!
  6. I am now using v. 162 on MAC Sierra. Home/End took me absolutely nowhere. Ctrl+right arrow shot Publisher straight off the desktop and left me with an Apple desktop.
  7. Still getting a very erratic response to the Frame Text Ruler. I am using v. 157 and have tried and tried to get either the little icon on the toolbar to work, or to check the View>Show Text Ruler option. Neither does a thing. There is definitely a bug in this thing!!
  8. No. This is the first time I have had a crash, since back in the days when I was trying to figure out indexes. This time I was trying to set up a default body Character style I would like to use for many documents, and was being repeatedly frustrated by having the font style reset from "Cormorant Regular" to "Cormorant Medium" no matter what I did. So I kept trying FILE>New Document, checking to see if my desired reset of the character style for "body" had been reflected, changing it again when it hadn't been reflected, and then closing it. Eventually I just closed the mess each time without saving it after I found that there was no change. After about 4 tries, I think Publisher got sick of me, and simply crashed. I think I need to delve into Character Styles without upsetting v. 145 or 157. Can't remember at this point which beta got mad at me.
  9. After more fiddling with v. 157 I have discovered that I am getting an erratic response to the Text Ruler. Sometimes when I do the View>Show Text Ruler the little icon turns up on the toolbar, and at other times it does not. When the icon does show up, sometimes I can get the text ruler to turn up by clicking in the text frame and at other times it doesn't work. But if I manage to get the operation to work, and keep the Show Text Ruler checked in the View menu, and then create new text frames, click inside, I immediately get the ruler. I first went back to v. 145 and found the whole process worked very smoothly. Then back to v. 157. But suggestion to toggle the Guides icons up in the toolbar (suggested by pruus above) doesn't do anything at all. Am I bats, or what?
  10. I also wish there was a Studio option to create and save a personal set of docked chosen panels. Every so often, after having organized my own chosen options into a docked panel, I need to get to the desktop, and accidentally swipe my docked panel into the ether. Then it is View>Studio>click on one thing, View.Studio>click on another, View>Studio> etc. etc. until I am back in business. The Reset Studio gets me back to the default, but so much of what I want (Character, Paragraph, etc.) is down at the bottom, with Color stuff up on top. Anyway, we must admit that these Panels are unbelievably full of goodies!!
  11. I must be a perfect idiot, but I cannot seem to get the Text Ruler to show at all. I have a text frame on my page, entered a few words of text, then clicked on View>Show Text Ruler, got the little icon greyed out up on the Toolbar saying "Frame Text Ruler" and nothing turned up on the document page. I have checked and unchecked and clicked and unclicked. Nothing. I am currently using a manually downloaded version of 157. "Oh where, oh where has Text Ruler gone, oh where oh where can it be?" etc.
  12. Hopefully this crash report arrives. Strange that it says "crash.crash" Affinity Publisher Beta_2018-11-03-154134_Jennifers-iMac.crash.crash
  13. Just downloaded it as a manual download. Opened several files created in v. 145. Piece of cake!!! I really love the new tools and the slick way one can now choose one's own favorites! The previous version was rather resistant -- at least to me. Tomorrow we shall see with the automatic download. So far, wonderful!!
  14. Methinks the old fable of the tortoise and the hare applies here. The Affinities are doing this just right, in my considered opinion. And to borrow from another author, there is many a beta “twixt the cup and the lip.” Just wait. When Publisher is ready for launch for MAC it will hit the world by storm. And mobs of us will be ready. Plenty of time for the Fall 2019 Apple event!!
  15. By George! Thos is rescued.!! Thank you. Clear as a bell, when one discovers the bell.
  16. I wish there was a way to set up a preferred docked set of Studio Panels which I use every time I start a new document and keeping them as a personal preset. The reset studio is fine, but only includes some of the options I want regularly (i.e. text frames, glyphs, effects). Wish I could make my own Restore Studio preset. Every so often, while swiping to the desktop for a file, I manage to swipe my docked panel off to the great beyond.
  17. I am using Cormorant. But I have found that by using various other fonts, including Courier, I still cannot accomplish what I want. Tried typing 1st into a text frame, then tried to do a superscript for the “st.” Nothing. It wouldn’t subscript either (although I wouldn’t want to do that in real life). I can make the 1 go either up or down, in either type face but that is the wrong thing. I have tried entering a word with a period after it and a superscript 1 (as if referring to a footnote). That works in Cormorant and Courier, so I presume it will in many other fonts. It seems that letters versus numerals cannot be super/sub scripted. I have also tried superscript/subscript with the copyright symbol from the Cormorant glyph browser. Won’t work. I tried the star symbol from the Courier glyph browser. Won’t work either. Then I tried the number 11 in Courier. It works. Apparently these options are currently only for numerals. Hopefully this can be sorted out one of these days. Hope this helps. I truly love Publisher!!!!
  18. No, I haven’t missed the point. I know there is no guarantee, and that is why I have been EXPERIMENTING with documents, and trying things out. If something is saveable, I also export it as a PDF and hope for the best. If Gombi is working on an actual finished project, the best thing to do is to be sure to save it frequently in .afpub (in the most current beta version) and in PDF. That way, the project has a possibility of being useable in the first commercial version. I guess my comment was a bit muddy.
  19. And if that doesn't work, which I have discovered it doesn't with a font I use quite a bit, I have found a workaround. It is a bit fiddly, but it works. Herewith, a screen shot.
  20. Good for you! We just have to remember to open and save any document we have been working on in the beta versions when the last beta is issued. I believe we have been advised that those last-saved documents will open correctly with the full, commercial version when it becomes available. It would be rotten to loose all your work. I have been experimenting with indexes, using a long PDF import, saved in .afpub, which I can mess up as much as possible, and then close with a Don’t Save. When the commercial Publisher version arrives, I will start redoing my books! Meanwhile, 81 is the new 51 in my book. Press on regardless!!!!
  21. I don't know whether this might help, but If you want to have a separate entry for each time that "Molly Bew" appears in your book, you may need to differentiate between the entries. It will take a little work, but good indexes actually do. It just means that the first time you enter her name, you type Molly Bew in the "Topic" box, and create the Parent Topic "Molly Bew." (Although you might want to make it "Bew, Molly" for standard index procedure. Then each time you use her name, you highlight it, place an index entry (Shift + Command + [ ) , and when the dialog box turns up, you will need to type in a descriptive phrase for why she is being indexed (i.e. "at the 1980 Reunion") and then scroll down through your list of Parent Topics to find Bew, Molly (or Molly Bew. I have attached a portion of an index to show you what I am suggesting, as well as a screenshot of the Index dialog box to show you how you would make the entry.
  22. Happy as a clam. Need to be checked into the looney bin. It was apparently me, not Publisher. I tried a new index today. First added some sample index entries from the document, using the shortcut Shift + Command + [ into the Index panel. Next added a new blank page after the last page of the document. Next added a text frame to the blank page. Went back to the Index Panel and clicked on the Insert Index icon. BINGO. A perfectly normal, organized index turned up on the correct page. It was not using the font I am using for the document, but that was easily fixed. As usual, Publisher is as smooth as can be. Wish I could say the same about this dolt. I have no idea how I managed to mess it up with my first attempt. It will possibly be a splendid idea, when the first commercial Affinity Publisher Help is being made ready, to spell out these steps a bit for dolts like me.
  23. Sometimes it helps to see what you are actually "undoing." You can also go up to EDIT>and click on the first option under it: "Set ... and what ever the last thing was that you did" if you want to undo a single action. You can then click on EDIT>Redo... if you change your mind. Publisher is so full of neat things that it is a little bit daunting to find them all right away!!!
  24. I hope so. And also my Command +A problem. I am now on my MAC (Sierra) and first checked with Apple Pages to see if Command + A works. Yes, it does. So I closed it out and opened Publisher (v. 145) and opened the document with the index which wouldn't respond to Command +A or to VIEW>Select All yesterday. The document has 57 pages of text, and a new page 58 with the index (now opened with your handy workaround) neatly arranged. I clicked inside the text frame and tried Command +A again. Nothing. I tried VIEW>Select all. Nothing. So I went into the document to a random page (i.e. 37) and tried Command + A. Worked perfectly. Back to the index page 58, Command + A refused. So I closed that .afpub file and went to another "Saved As" version of the same attempt at an index. Command + A didn't work. But then I went to a "Help" page I have created for myself, with a full-page text frame containing the saved index (from the original page 58 in another file) plus one new small text frame and a placed screenshot that I had made of the steps I need to take. I clicked inside the whole-page text frame, hit Command + A, and lo and behold, the INDEX portion of the page was highlighted. Not the other small text frame (which was placed inside the full-page text frame) or the placed screen shot. So then I went back to the first document (which wouldn't respond) and hit Command + A. It worked. There is definitely a gremlin in there somewhere. I do hope the developers can help to figure out this whole Insert Index thing!!!!
  25. Nope. No third-party stuff. Currently I am on an iPad. I will test the Finder thing in an hour or two when I fire up the MAC.
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